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Loewy, Michael
Michael Loewy was the founder of Desert Mountain States Lesbian and Gay Conference and the Lesbian and Gay Academic Union at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Loewy moved to California in 1987, but remained involved with the gay community in Las Vegas. In 2002 he graduated with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2003 he won a Foundation Award, "Honoring the Pioneers of Gay Las Vegas."
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Telegram from C. M. Hoffman to W. H. Comstock, September 25, 1922
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3rd Annual Big Horn Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998 March 06 to 1998 March 08
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This is a video recording [in two parts] of the 3rd Annual Big Horn Rodeo in Las Vegas, held March 6-8, 1998. For a history of the gay rodeo in Nevada, see Out of the Neon Closet: Queer Community in the Silver State, by Dennis McBride [North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016], pp. 196-204. [Part 1: 00:00:00 - 01:30:22; Part 2: 00:00:00 - 01:29:22]
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Collection Name: Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ Collection
Box/Folder: Box 19, Digital File 00
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Set of photographs including baby contest, Doolittle basketball, and Mrs. Coleman
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Photographer's notations: July 71, Baby contest at St., Doolittle basketball, Gays [guys?] at CEP, Mrs. Coleman.
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Vail Pittman, Nevada governor, image 001 of 046: photographic print
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